Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Proceeds from the sales will be used to refurbish our exhibits," said Paynter, as wily mothers skillfully steered their acquisitive children away from the stand. The sale of the dinosaur bones has been slow at first, but Paynter expressed the hope that they would increase as word of the store spread among the local schools...
Betting on considerably more than one song, customers, long before the scheduled, late fall Manhattan opening, have already spent more than $3,000,000 on tickets, the biggest advance sale in Broadway history. Producers L. and L. hesitate to advertise, fearing a further deluge of money. Other troubles beset the Camelot team. In the midst of his cutting and rewriting chores. Alan Jay Lerner went to the hospital with a bleeding ulcer,* and Director Hart learned of the death of his 97-year-old father in Miami, retired to his hotel room for three days with nervous fatigue...
...Modern Art who doesn't study each of Mr. Barr's syllables. If Mr. Barr sees a 'new concern with figure,' there is going to be a rush toward the art stores where those little books called 'How to Draw' are for sale...
...public," says Random House President Bennett Cerf. "They go around waving certified checks in publishers' faces-and I've never seen a publisher yet that could resist a certified check." Ran dom House could not resist, put some 222,060 shares of its stock on sale last October for 11¼. It was eagerly snapped up, now sells for about $31. Harcourt, Brace stock first went on the market last summer at 23½, is selling at about 27. The stock of Scott, Foresman and Co., biggest publisher of elementary school texts, goes on sale this fall...
...powder, which is mixed by dieters with water or skim milk, is such a hot-selling item that it has already spawned some 40 imitations from Sears, Roebuck's Bal-Cal to Quaker Oats's Quota, just out this week. With Metrecal sales up to an annual rate of $40 million, Mead Johnson's 1960 gross is confidently expected by company officials to jump this year from $65 million to $100 million, the profits to double to $6 a share. To help keep ahead of the imitators, the company last week put on sale a canned liquid...